Off The Beat: Race Your IM in XP or Your Software Will Get on Digg in Burbank, Little Girl

Wow, it's been a few more days than usual between "Off The Beat" segments so a few more stories to report. Also, I managed to create a flame war and GOT ON THE FRONT PAGE OF DIGG!!!

• [MakeUseOf] MakeUseOf Your iPhone: Palringo Instant Messenger
• [GeeksAreSexy] The Great Race [WoW Style]
  
• [MakeUseOf] Wakoopa - Find Out What Software You (And Others) Use Most
  
• [GeeksAreSexy] XP’s Nagware to Get an Upgrade [Oxymoron?]
  
• [MakeUseOf] 5 Great Apps To Turn Your iPhone Into A Powertool
• --------------------->Digg Front Page Story
  
• [GeeksAreSexy] Goodnight Burbank! - Reading the News Was Never This Fun
  
• [GeeksAreSexy] Little Girl, Big Gun [Video]

The big thing is obviously the article that got on Digg. It's a first for any of my works and I really feel like I should be able to do it again too. One thing that makes me a bit sad is that my really decent articles about software are much better than the one that got on Digg, but listy articles just travel faster up the pipeline so this one made it instead.

Also, I really will be doing a Jimmy Chows Down tomorrow so it should be up next week and I will link to it.